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Tuesday
Aug272013

Wanna Help Me Plan My TIFF Schedule?

I am pleased to report that I'll be covering TIFF for the first time since (gulp)... I don't even want to talk about how long it's been though I love that city dearly. TIFF has been kind enough to grant me accreditation but because the news came so late i've only been able to carve out about 4½ days for movie watching. I'll cram in as many movies as I can. Amir will also be there to help bring you TIFF festivities. If it goes well this year, we'll carve out 7 to 10 days next year. How's that? Have you looked at their massive slate? Which movies are you most excited to read about? 

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My answer is Dallas buyers Club, 12 years a slave, gravity, philomena. there are so many others i must be missing.

August 27, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJosh

Jealous! Lucky you!

Well, stuff that interests me:

McQueen's 12 Years A Slave, Breillat's Abuse of Weakness, All is By My Side, Chomet's Attila Marcel, of course August: Osage County, Claire Denis' Bastards, the Portuguese The Battle of Tabato (looks like it borrows from last year's magnificent Tabu), Blue is the Warmest Color, John Carney's Can A Song Save Your Life, Franco's Child of God, Romania's Foreign Film submission Child's Pose, Dallas Buyers Club, Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (I know how much you love 3-hour movies!), Ayoade's The Double, Enemy (from José Saramago's briliant novel and directed by Villeneuve with Gylenhaal), The FIfth Estate, Gloria (Actressexualism!), GRAVITY, The Great Beauty from Sorrentino, Hateship Loveship, How I Live Now, The Invisible Woman, Kill Your Darlings, Labor Day, Like Father Like Son, Mary Queen of Scots (looks like Farewell My Queen), Night Moves, The Past, Prisoners, The Railway Man (your Nicole Kidman fix until Grace of Monaco appears), The Sea, Southcliffe (miniseries from Sean Durkin!!), Stranger By the Lake, A Touch of Sin, Tracks and Under the Skin. AND THE WIND RISES OF COURSE, since it'll only get here in 2014. A Wolf at the Door also looks great.

STAY AWAY FROM RUSH AND THIRD PERSON. Paul Haggis (evil) and Ron Howard (evil^2). Beware!

August 27, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJay

Of course I'd forget something. And check Judi in Philomena of course.

August 27, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJay

I'd love an honest report on August: Osage County. Leads vs. Supportings especially.

August 27, 2013 | Unregistered Commenterbrandz

The Face of Love *Annette Alert*
August Osage County *Required Viewing*
12 Years A Slave *Ass-bender Nudity*

Everything else you're on your own.

August 27, 2013 | Unregistered Commenter3rtful

brandz -- but i don't need to see it to give that. I know the play! ;) ...and test screenings indicate they haven't totally demoted the protagonists.

August 27, 2013 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

stranger by the lake
gerontophilia
tracks
the big chill

August 27, 2013 | Unregistered Commentermatt

I would love your take on The Fifth Estate, August, Osage County and 12 years a Slave, plus Phlomena.

August 27, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterMargaret

I'd love to read more from you about The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him & Her; Don Jon; Enough Said; Gloria; The Invisible Woman; Kill Your Darlings; The Love Punch; Philomena; Stranger by the Lake; The Wind Rises; and The World of Goopi and Bagha.

Hope you have a great time!

August 27, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterTravis

Which 4.5 days are you attending?

Jay's list is a good starting point. I'd humbly add to that Ilo Ilo, Our Sunhi (though, if I recall, you're not a Hong Sang Soo enthusiast generally, right?), Bobo and some of the Greek City to City films (I'll be seeing Wasted Youth and Unfair World). The Strange Little Cat, Beyond the Edge, Eastern Boys, Kids from the Port, Blind Detective, and Moebius are some other non-NYFF films I'll be checking out.

Anyway, have fun! As a New Yorker who has made TIFF an annual ritual now, you're in for a treat - especially if you get to go to press screenings, you lucky duck!

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterRoark

The special screening of The Big Chill followed by the Q&A with Lawrence Kasdan, Glenn Close, Meg Tilly, and co-writer Barbara Benedek. I'm biased because it's my favorite movie, but still. That's going to be awesome.

Also, I'd never heard of Devil's Knot until just now. Reese Witherspoon plays a mother of one of the 1993 West Memphis murder victims? I feel like that's the sort of thing that gets talked up...

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterAlex

Roark - Would love to meet you sometime! Every year I read your comments on my reviews or other tiff posts and you always seem to be in the exact same screenings as me :)

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterAmir

Which four days, girl?

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterNick Davis

Hope you have a good time Nathaniel. And many thanks for this wonderful blog.

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJans

Heh. I'm happy you put up this post, because my OCD self made an imaginary Toronto itinerary when the schedule went up and it would be a total waste if it never saw the light.

Thursday: Start Toronto with the zeitgeist and see The Fifth Estate and then just stick around the same theater for a showing of The Past.

Friday: Check out the one day only doc What Is Cinema in the afternoon, check out 12 Years A Slave in the evening (unless there are tickets for Jason Reitman's live reading, in which case drop McQueen like he's hot and treat yo' self!), and go for Catherine Breillat's collaboration with Isabelle Huppert Abuse Of Weakness at night.

Saturday: Take a well deserved morning in unless the buzz for The Railway Man is totally deafening. Save the afternoon for Blue Is The Warmest Color. Follow up with Labor Day. Take the rest of the night off.

Sunday: Marathon day. Head to Dallas Buyer's Club in the morning. Then Philomena and Gravity, though if the day needs a little levity you could always watch Taylor Kitsch reembrace his Canadian roots in The Grand Seduction instead. Then close the night off with the more low key Selfish Giant.

Monday: Take off for the morning. Start actressy with The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby, get even more actressy with August Osage County, and then presumably end the day in actressy ecstasy with Jonathan Glazer's follow-up to Birth: Under The Skin.

Can't wait to hear back on the site about the fest! Festivals are always such a fun time to be a cinephile, even if you don't get to go.

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterTB

The Railway Man!!!!

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterRM

Dear Nathaniel, please watch 'Sapi' by Brillante Mendoza.

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterPhil Roman

The Railway Man
Tracks

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJ.D

I am skipping (almost) anything that opens in October or November cuz it's a lot of money to spend for something i just need a smidge of patience for. And probably skipping (most of) the stuff at NYFF since I can see that here.

at least this helps narrow it down a bit.

August 28, 2013 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

Obviously, A:OC, Blue is the Warmest Color and Le Grand Cahier. :)

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered Commenterdinasztie

Please, see the Huppert-Breillat movie.

Huppert is maybe the greatest living actress (bar Binoche) and I wish I could write more about her.

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered Commentercal roth

I wish you could write, of course.

Also:

- Blind Detective (because I love Johnnie To and his movies are so FUN).

- Child's Pose (because Romania is still on fire)

Too much to see. I'll try to find more goodies nobody mentioned later.

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered Commentercal roth

There's also Jafar Panahi's latest Closed Curtain. And Sylvain Chomet's first love action feature, Attila Marcel, opens at Toronto too. Both seem like must sees. Also totally intriguing are Xavier Dolan's Tom On The Farm, Belle, and Tracks, none of which have official release dates yet as far as I'm aware.

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterTB

Congrats on getting to go to TIFF! Can't wait to hear your reactions to the experience and whatever movies you end up seeing.

Personally, I'd love to hear your thoughts on A Touch of Sin, Stranger by the Lake, Tom on the Farm (for Dolanish reasons), Ilo Ilo (I've read Edward Yang comparisons but I'm cynical that's just down to convenience due to race), Only Lovers Left Alive (SWINTON), The Past, The Selfish Giant.

Not sure how those pan out wrt NYFF and Oct/Nov US releases though!

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterAlice

Amir - That would be awesome! We do seem to be at a couple of the same screenings each year! I'll tweet at you or something (I don't see an email address on your blog?) and we can compare schedules, etc!

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterRoark

Labor Day, please!

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJeff

I'd check IFC Center's list of upcoming films. I know they have BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR, A TOUCH OF SIN and so on coming up quite soon.

I'd really like to recommend FELONY. I know it's a crime drama about men, but it's the long-awaited second feature from the director of NOISE, which is one of the greatest Aussie films of the last 20 years. If I can't be there to see it then you should! Also: TRACKS, because something tells me that's gonna be something special.

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterGlenn

Please, see the Huppert-Breillat movie.

Huppert is maybe the greatest living actress (bar Binoche) and I wish I could write more about her.

Huppert puts American actresses to shame.

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered Commenter3rtful

Almost every French actress puts their age counterparts to shame, 3rtful.

Binoche, Huppert, Deneuve, Seydoux, Cotillard.... Just to mention the most famous ones.

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJay

-12 years a slave (Fassy...)
-Abuse of weakness (La Huppert)
-August: Osage County (Do I really need to say it?)
-Enough Said (Director is one of my favorite & to remember Gandolfini who was a great one)
-Only Lovers left alive (Again: Do I really need to say it?)

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered Commenterstjeans

I'm overwhelmed by the list.

My top picks are Airships, *Blue is the Warmest Color, *Devil's Knot, *The Dog, Don Jon, Kill Your Darlings, Prisoners, Therese, Le Week-end, and The Wind Rises.

*Especially these.

Here's my whole list:

12 Years a Slave
Airships
Amazing Catfish
Art of the Steal
August Osage County
Bad Hair
Bastards
Belle
Blood Ties
Blue is the Warmest Color
Bobo
Can a Song Save Your Life
Dark Matter of Love
The Daughter
Devil's Knot!
Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
The Dog
Dom Hemingway
Don Jon
The Double
Empire of Dirt
Enough Said!
The F Word
Gloria
Gravity
Half of a Yellow Sun
Hateship Loveship
How I Live Now
Kill Your Darlings
The Love Punch
Night Moves
The Past
Philomena
Prisoners
Sarah Prefers to Run
The Sea
Therese
Tracks
Under the Skin!
We are the Best
Le Week-end
When Jews Were Funny
The Wind Rises
Words and Pictures

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterDeborah Lipp

Jay & 3rtful -- it's not at all a fair comparison since english language cinema doesn't offer actresses the kind of juicy stuff french actresses regularly get past 50.

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterNathanielR

If you haven't got your schedule down already, try watching films that don't have concrete reheat dates or that are being released late this year/early next year. I never understood people who go to film festivals to watch movies that have a theatrical release a month after.

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterMDA

Nathaniel R,

I've seen the play too. I'm interested in YOUR opinion of the film, leads and supports. Just wondering if, in your view, Harvey can get away with such shenanigans!

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered Commenterbrandz

A:OC Same as brandz is interested in knowing...

August 28, 2013 | Unregistered Commenterrick

If it were me, I would stay away from anything Oscar baity. I would go for things that won't open in the US or you won't get to see at NYFF.

Something like The Lunchbox or Half of a yellow sun or Bethlehem interests me far more

August 29, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterKD

MDA -- in most cases i agree with that. Anything coming to NYFF or coming out in October or November I'll mostly skip ... but i am human so i might fail a couple times at that ;) ... the NYFF stuff i am somewhat worried about because I can't make every screening in NYC and each movie only plays once for critics before the NYFF public screening.

August 29, 2013 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

Nat, I'd suggest that you try focusing on foreign-language material that you wouldn't have much of a chance of seeing anywhere else. That would let you get away from the "herd mentality" at Toronto, where every critic and blogger just HAS to see the same few films.

"Tom à la ferme" is a good start. I'd also suggest that you check out the Québécois film "Gabrielle," which is doing well in international festivals and which quite possibly might be Canada's Foreign-language Oscar candidate.

August 29, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterBill_the_Bear

Kill Your Darlings, Don Jon, Horns, 12 Years a Slave, August: Osage County and the new one with Woody Allen ' Fading Gigolo. I mean Sofia Vergara is in that movie! As for the other movies, I'm really interested to see Daniel Radcliffe in his new roles, he has so much potential. Anyway, this TIFF is going to be interesting. A lot of great movies and so little time.

September 2, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterPete
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